Hawthorn veteran Luke Breust has been helped off the field after suffering a serious injury in Box Hill’s loss to Footscray in their VFL preliminary final on Saturday.

Breust, who announced this season will be his last, knee got caught under an opponent while he was attempting to lay a tackle.

WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVE: Luke Breust suffers gruesome injury.

The much-loved forward immediately winced in pain as medical staff rushed onto the field to help.

He was eventually helped off in the hands of trainers, but it will almost certainly be his last act on a footy field.

Breust had earlier kicked a goal from his four disposals.

Channel 7 commentator Jason Bennett said: “The right knee has caved in. That’s pretty gruesome. We won’t need to see that again after that, we can see it’s a pretty

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